Domain Name News

ICANN published the Agenda for the “ICANN Special Board Meeting” that is being held on the 28th of February. Included in the “consent agenda” is the topic “Arab Center for Dispute Resolution’s Proposal to Serve …

Yesterday, February 26 2013, Afilias Limited send a notice to ICANN that they will be increasing the annual wholesale .INFO domain registry fee to $8.16 (including the ICANN fee), effective September 1, 2013, following the required …

Here is a list of my 4 figure domain name purchases at drop/expired auctions in 2012. I also buy domains from other venues like Sedo or Buy Domains and directly from the domain name owners …

Ron Paul split the original UDRP complaint for the domains RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org into 2 separate complaints, one for each domain name. Ron Paul originally filed a cybersquatting UDRP complaint at the World Intellectual Property Organization …

ICANN released today the string similarity contention sets for New gTLD program. ICANN focused on the visually similar gTLD strings that resulted in only 2 “Non-Exact Match Contention Sets”: .hotels & .hoteis (small l is …

One 3 word domain and one 4 word domain lead this week’s Sedo sales report: VagaDeEmprego.com sells for 60k EUR and ThrillOfTheGrill.com for 30k USD. This week, 844 transactions (763 last week) took place on …

Siesta.com sold for $50,500 at Namejet today. The auction had 294 bids from 275 bidders. There were 10 bidders with a $10k bid or higher. The domain name was sold by YummyNames.com that is a Tucows company. …

ICM Registry announced on the 14th of February the sale of 25 Premium Domains in a deal worth $185,000 to IRIS SARL, based in Luxembourg. ICM didn’t reveal the complete list of the domain names and the …

Two new gTLD applicants, GED Domains LLC and GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft, have send a joint statement to ICANN explaining the reasons why the .GED and .GEA gTLD strings should not be placed in string contention …

MELBOURNE, Australia – 26 February 2013 – Melbourne IT (ASX: MLB) today announced its full year results for the year ending 31 December 2012, reporting an 5% year-on-year decrease in revenue to $170.6 million and …

Wages.com sold for $41,000 at Namejet today. The auction had 353 bids from 309 bidders. There were 7 bidders with a $10k bid or higher. The domain name was sold by Tucows.com. $40k+ seems to be a …

On 26 March 2013, ICANN will unveil a global repository for trademark data, the first of its kind in the domain name space. The Trademark Clearinghouse will enable companies and individuals to protect their trademarks, …

FairWinds Partners consulting firm has written a blog post criticizing General Motors’ decision to withdraw three of its five new gTLD applications. GM withdrew 2 new gTLD applications last week and another one the week …

StubHub Inc., that is owned by Ebay, filed a UDRP complaint at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The complaint was filed for 123 domain names, all relating to StubHub. All are StubHub.com typos such …